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Linda Adair is a poet and a publisher of Rochford Press, and co-editor of Rochford Street Review and a (re)emerging artist. Her many Irish ancestors arrived in the early to mid 19th century, to escape the English occupation of Eire and the politicisation of the food shortage which became a polite genocide but was rebranded as the Great Famine. Born on Darug Land in the era of the ‘Great Australian Silence’ of what colonisation really meant, Adair explores the stories of women and men marginalised by history in her poems.

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Nathanael O’Reilly is an Irish-Australian poet residing in Texas. His books include Boulevard (Beir Bua Press, 2021); (Un)belonging (Recent Work Press, 2020); BLUE (above/ground press, 2020); Preparations for Departure (UWAP, 2017); Distance (Ginninderra Press, 2015); Suburban Exile (Picaro Press, 2011); and Symptoms of Homesickness (Picaro Press, 2010). His poetry, published in fourteen countries, appears in journals and anthologies including Anthropocene, Cordite Poetry Review, The Elevation Review, Ink, Sweat & Tears, New World Writing, Mascara Literary Review, Ponder Review, Westerly and Wisconsin Review. He is the poetry editor for Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian/New Zealand Literature.

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Noel Purdon, a multifaceted scholar and artist, was raised on the picturesque coast of New South Wales, Australia. His love for sailing and archaeology led him to explore the world, fostering a lifelong passion for travel and discovery. Purdon’s academic pursuits took him to Sydney, Florence, Bristol and Cambridge, where he became a Fellow in English at Trinity Hall in 1967. While at Cambridge, he worked with Raymond Williams to introduce the first cinema lectures within the English Tripos.

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